Federal legislation prohibiting firms engaged in interstate commerce from charging different buyers different prices for the same goods unless there is a difference in costs or if the price does not restrict competition.
Bars manufacturers and wholesalers from discrimination in price or sales terms in selling to individual retailers if these retailers are purchasing products of "like quality" and the effect of such discrimination would be to injure competition.
An amendment to the Clayton Act which deals with price discrimination.
Federal legislation that prohibits discrimination through price discounts, special terms or services, or other means, e.g., false brokerage payments; promotion allowances for certain customers.
A law passed in 1936 that regulates advertising allowances and discounts, providing protection for small retailers.
a Federal law that prohibits discriminatory pricing that tends to create a monopoly or injure competition. Price differentials must be based on cost of manufacture, sale, delivery, quantity discounts, or purchaser's status as a wholesaler.
The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, ) is a United States federal law that prohibits anticompetitive practices by producers, specifically price discrimination. It grew out of practices in which chain stores were allowed to purchase goods at lower prices than other retailers. The Act provided for criminal penalties, but contained a specific exemption for "cooperative associations".